Other raids on north, east and south Lebanon killed 14 people and wounded 37. At least 103 people, all but four of them civilians, have been killed in Israel’s four-day-old assault.

So the Israelis have managed to kill 4 Hizbollah at the cost of 99 civilian lives, that’s almost 25 civilian lives per fighter.

It is an appalling figure and yet the UN Security Council can’t even agree a statement calling for a truce, although it’s too late now for those civilians (and, I fear, a lot more in the near future) anyway.

How much of our humanity and caring have we sacrificed in the name of this “War on Terror” ?